With a background steeped in hip-hop and skateboarding, self-described “hood kid” and world-renowned fetish photographer Ian Reid might seem like an unlikely character to shoot BDSM, but sex has been a heavily permeating theme throughout Reid’s skate career, dating back to his self-produced cult classic film, Sex, Hood, Skate and Videotape.

The truth is, skateboarding has always comprised a fringe community of outsiders and anarchists that spits in the face of societal norms — not so different from the BDSM and public-nudity scenes he captures in his current work. His years spent skating the streets of his rough-and-tumble corner of Brooklyn gave Reid a fearlessness behind the lens as well as an uncanny ability to remain unfazed when dealing with reactionary cops or religious... Read More